Fill in the blanks with one suitable word.

Africa Rising(yükeselen) is a shocking documentary of the problems of people in the

developing countries of Africa. It shows how a large rural area in Ethiopia takes matters into
its own hands to fight 1___poverty_______________ .

Ethiopia is a potentially(potansiyel olarak) 2__wealthy/rich________________ country with

enormous resources. However, the failure of Western policies towards Africa has been
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____causing______________ famine(kıtlık) and starvation in eastern Africa. The film shows
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___that_______________ the West must rethink(yeniden dönüşmek) its role in helping the
continent.

In the Sodo region of Ethiopia, schools have been abandoned; in other areas there is no
health care and people5 ____should (must)_/have to____________ travel for hours to
reach(ulaşmak) the nearest doctor or hospital. The whole region is dominated by vast areas
of dry and unproductive land where the soil has been washed away.

Western governments and aid(yardım) agencies(kuruluşları) thought they had the

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____(solution)__________ to the problem: pouring billions and billions of dollars in aid into
the region(bölge) with practically(neredeyse) no lasting(kalıcı) results. Much of the money
ends up in the pockets of foreign aid workers or in accounts of banks far away from the
region.

The documentary shows 7_____how____________ the residents of Sodo started helping

themselves. Twenty men and women were taught new skills, like dam construction,
bricklaying, micro banking, raising livestock and planting new crops. Each of these people
passed on their 8__(knowledge)________________ to twenty others - and those twenty
followers to twenty more. Within a short period, tens of thousands were growing cash crops
for the first time, or digging irrigation systems to stop erosion and the washing away of soil
after floods.

In short, the documentary shows the extraordinary (olağanüstü) success story of

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_____(one)_____________ of the most disadvantaged regions of the world.